How much the USSR football player earned in Uzbekistan. The team was considered a collective farm, but they paid a lot

Suddenly! In the USSR, football was very different from the modern one – both in terms of conditions and money. Most players could not afford what is available even to the middle peasants today. It is interesting that in those years the lower league players often earned more stars from the Popular League. Everything depended not only on the success of the team, but also on the relations of the club and unofficial schemes. For example, in the 1980s, the Spartakites received about 220 rubles, and Shakhtar players almost a thousand: they were issued as miners and paid allowances. They didn’t skimp on salaries in the Asian part of the USSR-especially in Uzbekistan. So, in Pakhtakor, players received much more than their colleagues from Moscow top clubs. This will not allow the famous goalkeeper Alexander Yanovsky. He moved to the Uzbek club in the fatal 1979, when a terrible plane crash occurred. However, he did not get to the same flight from Tashkent, as he was restored after the injury and did not enter the application of the team – therefore, he survived.Igor Utkin, TASS photochronics “In 1978, he tuned in to leave Lokomotiv and just met with the Churkin brothers, with whom he played in SKA. Victor played for Pakhtakor. We went with them to the Moscow bathhouse, to the Sanduna. They sat, got caught, and it turned out that there was no goalkeeper in Pakhtakor. Come on, they say, to us, with the coach, they say, we will agree. Then the head coach was Alexander Kochetkov, he invited me. I finished the season in Lokomotiv and went to Tashkent. Well, in truth, the salary in Pakhtakor was larger. The team was considered a collective farm, it was sponsored by the political department. That is, a political department paid 250 rubles and the same number – a club, plus 250 rubles – for victory. There were few such salaries. In general, he flew to reconnaissance and stayed, ”the Yanovsky admitted. The goalkeeper played for Pakhtakor until 1986. During this time, he spent 325 matches, missed 370 goals and designed 110 “crackers”, helped the club achieve the best result in the Major League of the USSR in history (in 1982 Pakhtakor finished the sixth), and also, apparently earned well. So the decision to leave Moscow clearly turned out to be justified.